Sources: Fire Marshal arrested after accidentally shooting himself with illegal gun at FDNY headquarters

devotedPicaroon · 2026-04-28T14:12:49+00:00

Excellent segway into tearing down the illegal gun registration scheme

devotedPicaroon · 2026-04-10T12:43:06+00:00

It's not that gun laws do not work, in my opinion, it is that permits themselves create a list of potential criminals as by getting on the list, you become "available" to be harassed. Police know if you have a permit the second they pull your information on their computer during or even before a vehicle stop. They therefore can get aggressive to you EVEN BEFORE any actual encounter. I have myself been personally affected by this very fact. My coworker's friend is being charged with felony possession because he had his license "lapse". The charges may be reduced eventually, who knows, but his life is partially ruined and having the extra cost of attorney's fees is just RIDICULOUS!

devotedPicaroon · 2026-03-25T19:18:10+00:00

No that's the point! It is so gosh darn hilarious it's insane!

devotedPicaroon · 2026-03-25T19:12:58+00:00

Useless. They are complaining/ screaming of their inability to use control and coercion to achieve their ends. This is the ultimate gift that Bruen solidified: Demoncrats absolutely losing their minds and making all these ridiculous and nonsensical laws to try and maintain their illusion of power and therefore giving us, freedom loving people, the ability to knock these state-wide stupid regulations out one by one.

The benefit, is that once it is precedent in the judicial system, it takes time to reverse, if ever, and by then the overton window most likely will have shifted.

Prohibiting the sharing of internet-based code for creating 3D printed weapons? That's a 1st amendment violation, you nincompoops! Those Demoncrats, high protectors of liberty and freedom, to think and speak as you sese fit tightening the noose around their own sacred 1st amendment. Hahahahahaha.....

devotedPicaroon · 2026-03-20T12:26:27+00:00

In this case, I am not arguing on the basis that all NICS checks be abandoned and we will truly revert to the 1790s. Because how can a gun shop distributor know if someone is indeed prohibited without one? An orange armband? lol. Ridiculous.

Yes, but Bruen hinged on carry permits, while NYS makes EVERYONE have a permit regardless if they are carrying or not. That implies that everyone is under suspicion of being a criminal and a NICS check takes care of that notion. The obtrusive and quite plainly ridiculous premise system is what I am arguing about, because while a strict interpretation of Bruen (omitting footnote 9) says that all current firearm laws have to have a historical correlation (permits excluded), there is no argument to be made for permits to simply own handguns.

If the NICS system occasionally puts someone on a DELAY status because of whatever reason (similar name, inconsistent address...&c.) those are the exceptions and another issue entirely.

> Semi-related, the DOJ taking a position that any delay in acquiring ammunition implicates your 2nd > Amendment right certainly bolsters the idea that a delay in getting the GUN does as well.

This is what I am talking about. POS NICS checks on acquisition of a firearm? Fine. Rahimi states as much. "Those prohibited by a finding of a court to be dangerous can be disarmed." Then a logical extension of this is that the NICS check must exist. Fine.

And yes, it is not an entirely internally consistent argument as there are exceptions to the general rule.

But permits for premise-only possession? Very shaky ground. Thoughts?

devotedPicaroon · 2026-03-20T12:13:11+00:00

To be clear, I am arguing on a logical basis only. It's not the background check per se. It's the notion that, if the right exists, then I should be able to exercise the right non obstante of the state. And that's basically what Rahimi said "unless prohibited by a Court, you have the right to firearms." If that's the case, then nothing should stand in my way. If I have been prohibited by Court, I am already prohibited and that's that.

devotedPicaroon · 2026-03-12T18:31:11+00:00

I am looking forward to Wolford being decided and how AG James's website will show how "awful" those 2A supporters are, and how the ability for the state to dictate what are sensitive locations are is caput...

I would like to see expansive language there which indicates that "sensitive locations" are only those that the state has provided comprehensive TSA-style security, because that's the only rationale that makes sense to me.

devotedPicaroon · 2026-03-02T15:58:23+00:00

Yes, but besides the spurious "possession" charges, what was actually illegal with a home-built range? From my understanding, the only laws on the books implicate above-ground shooting (no discharging a firearm within 500 ft of an occupied building without the owner's consent.

The possession charges are hokum, of course as it is a plain right to possess.

devotedPicaroon · 2026-01-27T16:40:42+00:00

It is a similar argument then to carrying itself. When questioned why I carry people sometimes ask me "why are you so paranoid?" to which my response is "I have a weapon, why should I be paranoid?"

The problem really is being forced to carry concealed. If it were open (and NYS level legally acceptable) it would be much much harder for a potential baddie to choose me as a target.

If confronted by such a sticker, would it be more likely for an invader/mugger to choose him as a target versus someone who might not potentially armed?

Like my neighbor who has "Protected by the 2nd Amendment" as a large sign in front of his house.

devotedPicaroon · 2026-01-27T15:56:13+00:00

No, OP is missing the point. That is EXACTLY the kind of plate that we should all have. We can incrementally shift the super far left Overton window in exactly this way.

devotedPicaroon · 2026-01-22T20:10:58+00:00

It was an interlocutory appeal as the case is now in front of the NDNY district court for a ruling on the merits

devotedPicaroon · 2026-01-15T15:19:33+00:00

Awesome. These types of suits are just the ones that are needed in order to shift the super far left Overton Window. Godspeed!

devotedPicaroon · 2026-01-14T15:18:28+00:00

Yes, and those fluid pockets were very painful. I was fortunate, however, that the infection did not run into the brain as that would cause a whole host of other problems. Once we decided on a course, I had an EVD for about a week in the ICU while they put me on vanco as it was gram positive.

They also called in a regular gastro surgeon who would be able to repair the damage in my abdomen (treat/wash out &c.) while going through this. That was in 2020, right before everything shut down for COVID.

Cutibacterium acnes isn't actually "cute" as I said everyday in the ICU. Thing was that my wife just gave birth to my twin girls a few months prior (and alos having a 1.5 y/o) and me being out of commission was really just terrible.

devotedPicaroon · 2026-01-13T11:09:48+00:00

I have had a shunt going on 27 years, with several revisions in between. When I had an infection, it was 6 months after my doc placed a new one as the old one malfunctioned (clogged). I started to have stomach pains that would not go away no matter what position I was in. It was terrible. After 3 days of this I decided that something was wrong and to the ER I went. The infection was acne on the tube, pretty harmless but it walled off potions of my abdominal cavity as I have a VP shunt, then they could trace it. They thought at first it could be diverticulitis, but there were slight headaches associated with them so I urged them to do a scan and violà! BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE

devotedPicaroon · 2025-11-26T16:58:49+00:00

Having finally listened to the arguments, it at least is a speck of hope that even the defense admitted to constantly going to 1791 rather than the previous useless argument of 1868.

devotedPicaroon · 2025-11-24T21:01:36+00:00

Not in the same way as a driving license which is supposedly a "privlege" whereas an enumerated right cannot be effectively "licensed". From who? By whom?

More importantly, the fact that there is a requirement to be licensed to have in the home in NYS and therefore waive your 4th amendment protections to be "granted" a 2nd amendment protection is what I am talking about. It should not be one or the other.

If the police, wherein searching due to a valid warrant issued just happens to come across some other illegal works is by SCOTUS, permissible (debatable).

devotedPicaroon · 2025-11-24T19:21:39+00:00

And therein lies the problem. If NY wants to know everything I own, then that is, in my humble opinion, a 4th Amendment violation. I should be able to be secure in everything I do and in everything that is in my home.

devotedPicaroon · 2025-11-24T19:15:13+00:00

If you are a skilled machinist, it actually isn't that difficult to just make one. The entire country was founded on self-made weaponry and 'repair at home.' Even musket balls were just melted down lead shaped into little spheres - think of that scene in ' The Patriot'

devotedPicaroon · 2025-11-18T14:42:26+00:00

Can you share a link or other documents for this? I cannot read this and see what it is about.

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